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88The story is slender, but the Brazilian settings are exquisite and lilting tunes by Antonio Carlos Jobim cast a spell over the entire enterprise.
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88Not only is Bossa Nova a lovely romance, but one can say, as one can about few films, that it is restorative as a vacation.
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80Despite the frivolous feel, it's clear the director intends for Bossa Nova to be a love letter to his two passions: Brazil and his leading lady (who's also his real-life wife). Neither lets him down.
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80Imagine a '30s screwball comedy played to a sensuous Brazilian beat and you're ready for Bossa Nova, a delightfully amusing romantic roundelay.
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75A breezy, elegant charmer of a movie.
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75Isn't great. But I had fun watching.
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75One of the most warmly beguiling romantic comedies the Southern Hemisphere has sent our way in ages.
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75The air smells sweet and there's a thrumming beat in Bossa Nova.
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75A cheerful and stylish romantic comedy that's easy on the eyes and ears, and makes few demands on the intellect.
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70There must be a name for a picture so inconsequential, in which the music provides so much of the chemistry that you get the feeling Bossa Nova would be funereal without it.
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70The coincidences that bring some characters together and keep others apart in this romantic comedy are plotted with musical grace.
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67May not carry great emotional or intellectual weight, but, in a slim and fetching way, it's peachy.
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63Romantic comedy that softens your date into giving you that first kiss. It's not much more than that -- it's flawed and somewhat unfocused.
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60Sort of like a Jennifer Lopez video: pretty to look at, easy on the ears, but ultimately completely vacuous and lackluster.
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50Does have a certain classy charm because of its upscale setting. One could wait for the video.
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50Like sitting on the beach under a cozy, warm afternoon sun. The view is beautiful, but not much is happening and soon you drift peacefully to sleep.
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50The city looks breathtakingly lovely, the movie's Brazilian characters are charming and filled with joie de vivre, and using excerpts would take care of the fact that the pacing's a bit sluggish for such fluffy material.
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50Tilts toward the slight and merely pleasant when it could have had much more emotional impact.
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45Bossa Nova has no beat.
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40It's a feast of inconsequentiality, though, a love affair-lite that looks great but is ultimately less filling than a sunny summer Sunday's creampuff dream.
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40This suffocatingly pleasant cross between "Sliding Doors" and "Six Degrees of Separation" is barely rescued by one beautiful scene.
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30Sits before us like an exquisite platter of wax fruit, colorful, flavorless, and, if you eat it, very likely to come back up.
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20Unromantic, nonsexual and hellaciously dull.
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